Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-12-01
THE EDITOR.

answering 1t, II / see ut TO adopt the
same course that he did, | ought to be
hardened in as much as | am not a
NOTED JOURNALIST.
7 will say at the beginning that / do
not claim infallibility, that | may some
times err in the discharge of my duties,
which, as the gentleman says, are
"ungrateful and arduous," oftentimes
being obliged to give an instantaneous
decision, which the chronic grumblers
of the district will discuss pro and con
at their usual resorts, and if it APPEARS
that the decision was rendered while
the judge had "bandage on one eye"
although supplied with the balance"
and having the official stamp of the
sealer Of weights and measures" the
above named company will forthwith
assemble at the CORNER to discuss the
ACCESSIBILITY of getting up a petition to
have him communicated.
In the same issue the gentleman
wholly ignores the clause of the u. S.
Constitution,and reiterated by our State
Constitution, which says: that no bill of
attainder, &C., shall be passed, but makes
himself believe that he is legislator
draughts the bill, passes it, and then by
the magic touch of wand is transform
ed into a justice who is capable of ad-
ministering it according to the wishes of
those who congregate at Bascom's, and
also after the fashion Of that memorable
justice who decided against the defend
ant on the ground that if he were not
guilty the plaintiff would not sue him.
The insinuation, that "the fist and the
boot are used to convey knowledge
from the mighty brain of the teacher to
the pupil" is an unmitigated falsehood.
1t may possibly be that those were the
methods by which the gentleman OBJ
tanned his. store of knowledge, hence
his aversion.
He suggests "moral suasion" as about
the right thing to do with incorrigible
boys. Well, all right We'll try it; but
first let the people of Centralia try it on
the venerable editor of their paper and
if they succeed then it will do to use it
in school,
School, did | say? Yes Why, if we
are to judge by reading his paper, he
never knows when school begins or
ends, or whether it is in session at all or
not, until some mischievous lad, who
has felt the halter draw with a
poor opinion of the law" rushes down
town and tells him. He, then, rubs his
eyes, mutters reform, and takes his pen
aud addresses to the teacher one of his
great Philippics, scarcely surpassed by
Demosthenes himself.
Again we find the assertion, that the
principals son was arrested and found
NOT GUILTY because there was not suffici-
ent proof" But the facts are that the
evidence against the boy cleared him to
the entire satisfaction of all who heard
It, and plainly showed that it was
trumped up case in which the parties
hoped by GOOD SWEARING to convict.
And then contrary to all the principles
of legal jurisprudence, which maintains
that person who is arrested is held to
be innocent until proven guilty, this
gentleman hurls vile and ungentlemanly
epithets, such as criminal" and 'san-
archist" at him.
Now what is this for? 1t is an
attempt through malice and envy to
undermine and ruin innocent people by
well contrived, though unskillfully
executed scheme of falsehoods, ambigu-
Gus sentences and low degraded insinu-
atoms, all tending to satisfy the insatia-
bic appetite of vultures who dwell here
in our midst, yet not unlike those that
live on some mountain crag and swoop
down on the channels as it feeds on the
mountain side. but finding the parent
not an easy prey, circle round to glut
themselves upon the innocent offspring
that covers beneath the parents form.
Enough of that; and now for the
heading. There are three professions,
viz: the teacher, the editor, and the
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the other.
And In every well regulated commune
ity these three professions, if SO many
exist, work harmoniously together for
the public good-the teacher in the
school room with the children, the
editor around the neighborhood and in
the school room also, looking after the
morals Of the people and children, Civ
Ing advice, verbally or through the
columns Of his paper, while the minister
exercises a supervisory power over all.
Now il is admitted that a
feachesshould be something more than
the person who stands in the school
room, fer six hours, hearing the recita-
tons, raising his voice against the evil
influences that surround the young dur
ING The eighteen hours, in the twenty
four, that they are absent from school.
He should be 3 person whose daily
lie is above reproacn and one that the